C.S. Lewis on the Three Ways of Writing for Children and the Key to Authenticity in All Writing

Stories endure if they contain content that resonates, and not just truths; fantasies (like Cinderella) also have the capability to last.

story is a sense-making device.

During the time of C. S. Lewis’s writing, English speakers and writers often used the word should where today it is more common to use the word would.

Literature exists to teach what is useful, to honour what deserves honour, to appreciate what is delightful. The useful, honourable, and delightful things are superior to it: it exists for their sake; its own use, honour, or delightfulness is derivative from theirs. In that sense the art is humble even when the artists are proud;